Twitterrific 2.1

D'oh! That connectionLogging debugging is what I'd overlooked to figure out the problem: a slash character in my password turned into a bogus delimiter in the URL string. Changed that and 2.1 is working fine now. Thanks, Craig!

If Twitterrific is having connection problems, please turn on connectionLogging to see what's going on.

To turn on connection logging:

1) Quit Twitterrific
2) In a Terminal window enter:

defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific connectionLogging -bool YES

3) Launch Twitterrific
4) Open Console.app and get the output from when you're seeing the error.

To turn it off, replace the command above with:

defaults delete com.iconfactory.Twitterrific connectionLogging

Thanks for the feedback, leslie. Glad to know it's not only a problem on my systems. Now I'll just wait for Iconfactory to fix it and not put any more time into figuring it out what's wrong.

Re: Why be interested in Twitter? Same can be asked about many things on the Internet and life in general. No harm in simply ignoring it, or giving it a try and seeing if there's something worthwhile in it for you (beyond the front page). So far for me it's the type of informal communication tool that merges with certain things I'm doing without being overly distracting or demanding too much time and attention. It's something I can choose to ignore when I'm busy without feeling guilty.

I get the same problem on my MacBook and iMac 20" at work. 2.0 ran flawlessly, neither the 2.1 beta or 2.1 release can connect.

Version 2.1 can't make a connection on either my iMac G5 or wife's eMac. From the error log:

2007-06-07 09:48:55 -1000: There was an error retrieving the XML data from Twitter. The error message is "can’t find host".

DNS lookup isn't even attempted. 2.0 worked fine on the iMac and 2.1 was a clean install on the eMac. I've reported this to Iconfactory earlier today but haven't gotten a response. Anyone having success with 2.1 or have a clue what might be wrong with it on my systems?

Seriously, I simply do not understand why anyone would be interested in Twitter, so perhaps someone can clarify something for me.

It may be that I am only seeing the Twitter front page. Trying to think of a way it, might be useful (microblogging via SMS via ones cell phone or such), I am just not seeing that done. Perhaps because it doesn't work that way, or no one is llinking directly to their page that is nothing but their own twitters, where the one sentence might fall into a context of a days activities.

No one reporting on Twitter is describing it this way; no one is linking to a single author twitter blog with any SUBSTANCE. I suspect it could be done,,,,